Bildhausen Monastery (also Maria Bildhausen Monastery) is a former Cistercian abbey near Münnerstadt in Bavaria in the Diocese of Würzburg. It lies in a partially wooded hilly landscape on the eastern edge of the Rhön.
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In 1818 the Mennonite Muselmann family bought half of the monastery property. In 1827 there were 45 members of a Mennonite Brethren community living there, all of whom had emigrated to America by the end of the century. In 1897 Dominikus Ringeisen acquired the monastery complex. Sisters of the St. Joseph's Congregation from Ursberg moved into the preserved buildings and built a facility for the disabled in 1929. In 1954, at the request of the Kleinwenkheim community, the Bildhausen part of the community was renamed Maria Bildhausen by decision of the Bavarian state government. Since 1996, the facility for people with disabilities has been run by the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk church foundation. The summer residence and farm buildings on today's golf course also come from the last abbot. There is a monastery inn and a restaurant on the golf course. On June 23, 2017, the last three sisters left the monastery and moved to a convent in Ursberg.[2] On July 12, 2020, the last pastor, Pallottine Father Gottfried Scheer SAC, passed away; there will be no successor.
The agricultural land, to the extent that it is still used as such today, was leased in the summer of 2009 and then converted to organic farming. Local products include apple juice, liqueurs and schnapps.
A golf course was laid out in 1992/1993 on a further 138 hectares of previously agricultural land; Abbot Schlimbach's summer residence and farm buildings were partially renovated or renewed. The operator is the Golf Club Maria Bildhausen e. V. Parts of the natural field and meadow landscape were preserved on the 18-hole course, and additional ponds and plantings were created. With a length of twelve kilometers, the golf course is twice as spacious as an average-sized course; the length of the fairways is not affected. Wikipedia In the cemetery in Maria Bildhausen, a euthanasia memorial commemorates the terrible crimes in World War II, the destruction of "unworthy" lives. Residents of Maria Bildhausen were also sent to extermination camps.
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